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re: Louisiana PI lawyers upset over new law
Posted on 7/14/25 at 11:51 am to BilbeauTBaggins
Posted on 7/14/25 at 11:51 am to BilbeauTBaggins
If they're against it, I'm for it.
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Posted on 7/14/25 at 11:55 am to BilbeauTBaggins
Laborde Earles won't be able to do Saints commercials anymore. Gonna have to go back to driving trucks on the weekends like plebs. Times are tough for PIA's
Posted on 7/14/25 at 11:58 am to SlowFlowPro
thanks for the clarification, slightly misunderstood what he said. So, in that example, the medical insurance company is being made whole, which would also reduce the amount paid out on the injured parties maximum health insurance coverage, if that is/was still a thing. Either way, sounds like a legitimate adjustment to the law as the injured party should not recover expenses they will not actually pay. If they are truly due those funds, then the PI attorney can make the arguments under the pain & suffering portion of the claim
Posted on 7/14/25 at 12:00 pm to BilbeauTBaggins
Seriously, frick Gordon.
Posted on 7/14/25 at 12:35 pm to BilbeauTBaggins
Muh collateral source rule
Posted on 7/14/25 at 12:39 pm to BilbeauTBaggins
Absolute bullshite. Injury lawyers wrote all of the damn bills.
Posted on 7/14/25 at 1:55 pm to tigersbb
"Arrangements" ........exactly. Plt attys negotiate a set amount of medical charges with a physician they use all the time & the medical provider is made good by the volume of referrals they get from the attys. This is especially true with chiropractors. The attys then submit the "true " amount to the court as money they are owed in a settlement or judgement.
Posted on 7/14/25 at 2:45 pm to SlowFlowPro
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The argument has always been that the rule we're now adopting hurts people who have health insurance.
Sounds like a pretty dumb argument.
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You will be able to identify the PI attorneys by their use of this argument.
Ah, I see.
But seriously.. how does one possibly rationalize the argument that the person with health insurance is getting screwed in this scenario?
Posted on 7/14/25 at 2:45 pm to Weekend Warrior79
I don't like billboard PI lawyers, but this creates some significant issues.
I am unclear from the posts on whether the recovery is actually limited to amount amounts actually paid when judgment is rendered or settlement reached.
Plaintiff is injured and perhaps disabled, and cannot pay his medical bills which may be huge. He has incurred and still owes 100% of those bills.And Is Plaintiff to use the remainder of his recovery, after paying 1/3 to pay these additional, unpaid medical costs? .
If so, the Plaintiff is never made whole, is he?...
I am unclear from the posts on whether the recovery is actually limited to amount amounts actually paid when judgment is rendered or settlement reached.
Plaintiff is injured and perhaps disabled, and cannot pay his medical bills which may be huge. He has incurred and still owes 100% of those bills.And Is Plaintiff to use the remainder of his recovery, after paying 1/3 to pay these additional, unpaid medical costs? .
If so, the Plaintiff is never made whole, is he?...
Posted on 7/14/25 at 2:57 pm to BilbeauTBaggins
What the state needs is more quality insurance carriers, not more plaintiff attorneys
How do we get more quality insurance carriers?
Improve the legal environment so that insurance companies don’t get hit with unreasonable lawsuits including those with outrageous medical bills for supposed injures where doctors aligned with the plaintiff attorneys aren’t concocting medical bills for these alleged injuries. Stop unnecessary medical procedures for alleged injuries.
As it stands, this state is a haven for plaintiff attorneys and Frankenstein type medical and pain clinics.
We don’t need more of that.
How do we get more quality insurance carriers?
Improve the legal environment so that insurance companies don’t get hit with unreasonable lawsuits including those with outrageous medical bills for supposed injures where doctors aligned with the plaintiff attorneys aren’t concocting medical bills for these alleged injuries. Stop unnecessary medical procedures for alleged injuries.
As it stands, this state is a haven for plaintiff attorneys and Frankenstein type medical and pain clinics.
We don’t need more of that.
Posted on 7/14/25 at 3:03 pm to BilbeauTBaggins
Does this require a constitutional amendment vote? If so, the morons in Louisiana will vote no.
Posted on 7/14/25 at 3:13 pm to nitwit
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Plaintiff is injured and perhaps disabled, and cannot pay his medical bills which may be huge. He has incurred and still owes 100% of those bills.And Is Plaintiff to use the remainder of his recovery, after paying 1/3 to pay these additional, unpaid medical costs? .
If so, the Plaintiff is never made whole, is he?...
This isn't for the lawsuits that are actual lawsuits with seriously injured people. They are gettting their money and more.
This is to stop the fender bender bitch from acting like Ezal and having some dipshit attorney send him to his dipshit chiropractor where they do very little of anythign b/c Ezal ain't hurt, and the chiropractor charges $20,000, which he eventually settles for $2,000 but they are still getting that $20k in the lawsuit
This post was edited on 7/14/25 at 3:16 pm
Posted on 7/14/25 at 3:17 pm to AwgustaDawg
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None of this is an issue when one lives in a nation with universal basic medical insurance....bad old socialized medicine.
Interested in waiting 6 months or longer to see a doctor?
Posted on 7/14/25 at 3:22 pm to BilbeauTBaggins
Definition of.... a damn shame.
A 60 passenger bus going off a cliff with only 59 lawyers onboard.
A 60 passenger bus going off a cliff with only 59 lawyers onboard.
This post was edited on 7/14/25 at 3:23 pm
Posted on 7/14/25 at 3:23 pm to lostinbr
Someone with no health insurance gets hit my a Mexican truck driver, (two of the mfers have hit me so far and one tried to run), and they hire a lawyer then they will be able to argue and present they full medical bill. Then after settlement the attorneys will negotiate it down.
Someone with insurance will only get to argue and present the amount of the insurance company paid, so better the insurance company you have the less you will recover. That’s is just a fact.
The big issue is that juries often base verdicts on medical bills because it is a real number and impairment and pain and suffering are really hard for people to put a number on. Truthfully, Jurors should have probably always been given both numbers.
Louisiana has shitty drivers, the worst roads in the US, rural people that ignore the law and start driving when they are 12, corrupt officials, high population of uninsured drivers and a very litigious population.
YOU ARE NEVER EVER GOING TO HAVE CHEAP INSURANCE.
I am sure it’s the lawyers fault on property insurance too, right. I find that one incredible since they rarely pay anyone after a hurricane or big storm that doesn’t have a lawyer to begin with.
BTW, despite all the bullshite, insurance companies have had record profits since Covid. They are killing it everywhere except California and Florida and State Farm and Allstate pawned them off into separate companies.
They charge you ridiculous rates because they are essentially a cartel and they can. Look it up.
Someone with insurance will only get to argue and present the amount of the insurance company paid, so better the insurance company you have the less you will recover. That’s is just a fact.
The big issue is that juries often base verdicts on medical bills because it is a real number and impairment and pain and suffering are really hard for people to put a number on. Truthfully, Jurors should have probably always been given both numbers.
Louisiana has shitty drivers, the worst roads in the US, rural people that ignore the law and start driving when they are 12, corrupt officials, high population of uninsured drivers and a very litigious population.
YOU ARE NEVER EVER GOING TO HAVE CHEAP INSURANCE.
I am sure it’s the lawyers fault on property insurance too, right. I find that one incredible since they rarely pay anyone after a hurricane or big storm that doesn’t have a lawyer to begin with.
BTW, despite all the bullshite, insurance companies have had record profits since Covid. They are killing it everywhere except California and Florida and State Farm and Allstate pawned them off into separate companies.
They charge you ridiculous rates because they are essentially a cartel and they can. Look it up.
Posted on 7/14/25 at 3:28 pm to TeddyPadillac
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and the chiropractor charges $20,000, which he eventually settles for $2,000 but they are still getting that $20k in the lawsuit
Naw that's not what this new law covers. That was ruled on by the LASC a few years ago, though.
Posted on 7/14/25 at 3:31 pm to TutHillTiger
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The big issue is that juries often base verdicts on medical bills because it is a real number and impairment and pain and suffering are really hard for people to put a number on. Truthfully, Jurors should have probably always been given both numbers.
Is it a real number when you have pain clinics either owned by or in cahoots with attorneys offices pencil whipping the “treatments/injuries”?
Posted on 7/14/25 at 3:35 pm to BilbeauTBaggins
Louisiana drivers stacked. Gordon NIL screwed.
Posted on 7/14/25 at 3:38 pm to Mais Lah
Grats on waiting 3yrs to post that
Posted on 7/14/25 at 3:41 pm to BilbeauTBaggins
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"Some of these injuries that we see exceed a million dollars in medical bills. So when someone is seriously injured, or they need some of their maximum health insurance coverage later, some of that is going to get depleted because of the fault of someone else," Boudreaux said.
Maybe I am having a bad day, but I cannot make sense of this statement.
quote:This is false.
“It basically passes off the cost to our clients and injured parties and takes rights away from them,” he said.
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